Bob Dylan to release more rarities in October

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan is opening up his vaults
for the first time in three years, with his label announcing on
Tuesday that it will issue a multi-disc album consisting of
late-era outtakes, previously unreleased recordings and live
tracks in October.

"Tell Tale Signs," the eighth installment in Dylan's
"Bootleg Series," focuses on albums from the last two decades,
ranging from 1989's "Oh Mercy" to 2006's "Modern Times."

Columbia Records will release "Tell Tale Signs" in three
configurations on October 7: a standard two-disc package with
27 songs, a "limited edition" set with a bonus disc containing
12 songs; and a four-LP vinyl version including all the
elements of the two-CD set.

Most of the tracks come from sessions for "Oh Mercy" and
his 1997 comeback of sorts "Time Out of Mind." Selections from
the former include a piano demo of "Dignity" and two alternate
versions of "Most of the Time"; and from the latter, a live
version of "Cold Irons Bound" recorded during Dylan's set at
the 2004 Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee.

The sessions for his 1993 folk covers album "World Gone
Wrong" have yielded "32-20 Blues," a tune billed as Dylan's
first release of a Robert Johnson song.

Dylan's "Bootleg Series" launched in 1991 with a three-disc
boxed set collecting rare and unreleased tracks spanning 27
years. The most recent release was the 2005 soundtrack to the
documentary "No Direction Home."

While there have been some reports that Dylan is working on
a follow-up to "Modern Times," a Columbia spokesman said "Tell
Tale Signs" is the focus for now.

Dylan, meanwhile, will begin a monthlong North American
tour in Philadelphia on August 8.